Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

North Texas man Cedric Ricks was found guilty of stabbing his girlfriend, Roxann Sanchez and her juvenile son, Anthony Figueroa, to death back in 2013. Thirteen years later, Cedric Ricks is scheduled ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, ...

Florida is preparing to carry out its fourth execution of the year as advocates against the death penalty warn about what they call a record pace of executions in the state. Fifty-four-year-old ...

James Broadnax, who was 19 when he shot and killed two Christian music producers in 2008, has filed last minute appeals ahead of his scheduled April 30 execution.

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

An Alabama inmate scheduled for execution in a few days has been officially taken off death row. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday she commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...